September 2011

Flash websites can be an attractive way to captivate your viewers’ attention and make their user experience on your site a little more interactive. Flash websites are different than a normal, text coded website that was developed with HTML, PHP, ASP or another language. You start with a raster stage where you can place objects based on X and Y coordinates and then dictate on what you want the objects to do, or how you want the user to navigate through the Flash site based on a timeline.

Members Only Tutorial

This tutorial is available exclusively to our FanExtra members. In order to read the tutorial and download it’s original .psd source file you must sign up as a FanExtra member.

If you sign up today you get access to hundreds of design files, including tutorial source files, members only tutorials, vectors, icon packs, texture packs and more! You can also access our huge collection of .psd website interfaces such as this one.

NOTE: This post was originally posted on September 10th 2010. However, we still to this day have readers who want to master professional photo retouching. This tutorial has helped a lot of people since it was first pubilshed, so we hope that whether this is your first time reading it, or you’re using it as a refresher, it’s helpful for you.

Using Curves in Photoshop

If you’ve ever struggled to get your head around curves adjustments in Photoshop, you found the right tutorial. We’re going to look at using different points on the curve, what they represent, and using the different RGB channels to make specific colour adjustments.

Playing xylophone, glockenspiel and vibraphone at primary school, sitting at home writing random songs, improvising classical or jazz at the piano or guitar, and taking care of anything with electrons flowing through it. Meet the AudioJungle team.

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FanExtra Membership Contest Winners Announced!

As many of you may have seen, we’ve recently relaunched our FanExtra Network. This relaunch has brought with it many vast improvements, offering all FanExtra members a much improved browsing experience, and a lot more member resources.

Members Only Tutorial

This tutorial is available exclusively to our FanExtra members. In order to read the tutorial and download it’s original .psd source file you must sign up as a FanExtra member.

If you sign up today you get access to hundreds of design files, including tutorial source files, members only tutorials, vectors, icon packs, texture packs and more! You can also access our huge collection of .psd website interfaces such as this one.

Many readers are unfamiliar with the newcomer in my hosting review list – WebHostingHub, I hope this FAQ post will help.

1. WebHostingHub who?

WebHostingHub has been around for some time. The brand name ‘WebHostingHub’ was established back in year 2005 and it’s under the same management team with InMotion Hosting, which has more than a decade of industry experience.

Some of you might never heard of the name but WebHostingHub is extremely popular; it’s ranked top 3 on at least half of the popular hosting review charts at this time of writing.

Design a Futuristic Abstract Portrait

This tutorial will walk you through the steps of how to create your very own futuristic artistic portrait. The great thing is that these techniques can be applied to virtually any portrait, meaning you can give yourself a creative self portrait, or even Photoshop the faces of your friends and family to surprise them!

Playing “Steel Dragon” songs loudly with the windows rolled down in front of movie theaters, watching The Big Bang Theory, spending too many hours each day on the CodeCanyon forums, and coding in Ajax and Javascript and ASP.NET and PHP and whatever. Meet the CodeCanyon team.

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that actual human beings sort through each and every submission to CodeCanyon on a daily basis. The following staff members are highly active in the community forums, and review one or more categories. They’re friendly, so feel free to say hi to them!

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Cute Little Kolen

Today we have a cute illustration, made available as a freebie for anyone to download. This was drawn by Anastasiia and it’s all 100% vector, available in AI and EPS format. Have fun adding this to children’s cards, blog posts, or your next design project that calls out for a cute little character.Continue Reading

I teach Thesis 1.8 users how to upload a custom Header image and Favicon for their WordPress Blog with Thesis as their theme in this tutorial. If you ever uploaded an e-mail attachment, or uploaded a file to the internet with WordPress, or YouTube, you’ll know how to upload a custom header image and favicon [...]

We’ve Relaunched our FanExtra Network!

Today we’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve relaunched our main network website FanExtra. FanExtra is the central network site for all the FanExtra blogs, including Blogs.FanExtra and of course Psd.FanExtra. It provides really affordable membership, and gives members access to hundreds of member files, such as textures, vectors, patterns, icons, web layouts, member tutorials, and of course .psd source files for all Psd.FanExtra tutorials!

I think it’s fantastic that our marketplaces hit a million members this week. That’s progress! It took over four years to accumulate our first half million members, and less than a year to double it. Incredible!

But Envato’s marketplaces had much smaller beginnings. It all started with one fledgling site with much fewer members: FlashDen (now ActiveDen).

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is an amazing resource. It basically allows you to travel back in time and see your favorite websites the way they were back in the good old days. This afternoon I spent some time there exploring FlashDen.

Even as adoption of Google Plus by new users seems to be slowing down a bit less than three months after its launch in June 2011, the experts are yet undecided as to who will win the battle for number one place in the social networking arena, Google Plus or Facebook.

The bitter lessons that the Internet giant learned in the social media space with Google Buzz and Google Wave may stand it in good stead, but in the modern open source age, lessons are really out there for all to learn. Facebook’s privacy controls debacle has not resulted in a significant drop in active users, following a concerted campaign to educate them about existing and new features.

Create a Colorful Out of Frame Animal Composition

In this design tutorial we are going to create a nature inspired composition using a lioness as our subject. We will learn how to take various images and textures and seamlessly blend them together into one cohesive design. We will be working quite a bit with Clipping Masks and Adjustment Layers to create the highest quality image without compromising the quality of the design, and we will also cover some helpful coloring techniques along the way. Let’s get started!

Learning MS Paint in Siberia, being a smart alec and compulsive designer, lying about accents, and being huge Apple fans. Meet the GraphicRiver team.

Welcome to GraphicRiver! At GraphicRiver you can buy and sell royalty-free, layered Photoshop files, vectors, icon packs, Adobe add-ons, isolated photos, and design templates for just a few dollars. Items are priced on the complexity, quality and use of the file. The site is home to a bustling community of graphic designers and illustrators.

The People Who Make It Happen

Sometimes we forget about the people that work hard behind the scenes to keep everything operating smoothly and effectively on a day-to-day basis. Let’s take a look at the team behind GraphicRiver:

Photo Manipulate a Dramatic Battle Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a dramatic action scene. During process of making this piece, you will learn how to combine different stock images, create exciting effects, effectively use blending modes, adjust color correctly and much more!

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